Re: New Document: "How to Start Contributing to or Using Open Source Software"

2010-12-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 19:15, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Yes, I did. I thought it was fair to mention Ubuntu because it appears to be > the most popular distribution right now, especially for beginners and one of > the most polished ones. I've also decided to forget about their treatment of > me in the

Re: New Document: "How to Start Contributing to or Using Open Source Software"

2010-12-28 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently finished working on a new document titled "How to Start > Contributing to or Using Open Source Software" intended to get more people > involved in the world of free and open source software (FOSS). You can find it > here:

Re: New Document: "How to Start Contributing to or Using Open Source Software"

2010-12-27 Thread Dotan Cohen
2010/12/28 Amit Elbaz : > great document overall. good job. > I agree, nice work Shlomi. I see that you gave all the Linux distros a fair shot, even mentioning Ubuntu before Mandriva! Are you sure that you wrote this?!? I'm not convinced that the "sainthood" part is relevant. It just makes things

Re: New Document: "How to Start Contributing to or Using Open Source Software"

2010-12-27 Thread Amit Elbaz
On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 20:37 +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently finished working on a new document titled "How to Start > Contributing to or Using Open Source Software" intended to get more people > involved in the world of free and open source software (FOSS). You can find > it